Ole! or . . Olive Leaf Extract. Amazing stuff.

Olive Leaf & Olive Leaf Extracts. What are they good for? Here is an abreviated list:

• Powerful Antibiotic - but no bad side-effects
• Antiviral agent - BigPharma can't touch it!
• Lowers high blood pressure (hypertension)
• Very powerful antioxidant (post on this - someday. . .)
• Boosts immune system (helps you fight off colds, flu, ear infections, etc.)
• Lowers LDL (the bad cholesterol) by 30%
• Opens arteries - particularly coronary (heart) arteries (can help arrhythmia)
• Can help in the treatment of chronic fatigue, herpes (cold sores), HIV, rheumatiod arthritis, diabetes, eye infections, nose & throat infections, pink eye, & impetigo.
• Works well against parasites
• Works well to treat yeast (candidiasis) and fungal infections.

Be Aware - you may experience a Herxheimers like reaction or Healing Crisis. This can be very confusing. That is why it is important to know what your weakness (or illness) is and be able to work with a Naturopath or Holistic physician - or an M.D. who understands holistic medicine (these may be hard to find!)

Good review of benefits (but they sell it - so not exactly neutral) - This site tracks back to an Ausie named Brett Seagrott.

References:
Vested intere$t web site (they sell it - but good info): Olivus
Cancer etc. - technical link: Sloan-Kettering
Abstract at the Journal of Antiviral Research (technical)

Padding the 'Facts' for $$$

Those prescriptions your doctor says to take - safe, well proven, backed by solid scientific evidence - right? And BigGov (FDA) is out there to protect you and be the watchdog - right?

Don't be so sure!

While checking out some of my own links I ran into this one - BigPharma Ghostwriting

Feel free to scroll down that web page and check out the sources.

I checked out some additional sources on the same subject - MSNBC

Just for grins I was looking for how many drugs have been removed from the U.S. market because they were unsafe on not effective. Can't find an estimate (Thousands?), but the search was interesting. Sample

That 'F' word (Fluoridation)

The title gives it away... Since it is quite easy to find all the 'facts' that fluoride is good for you ($$$, BigCorp & BigGov) this post contains some more interesting stuff - if you want to live long and enjoy it.

Here is a link to an entertaining UTUBE presentation
Like that one? Here's ANOTHER
And . . . yet ANOTHER

This article by the Managing Editor of Flouride, seems particularly relevant to expectant mothers and new families (also alluded to in the Utube clips). Read the Introduction beginning on page 9/88 of the PDF document. Here is a quote from that article: “Fluoridated water may be having its most devastating effects on the most vulnerable, those in utero and infants less than one year old, whose brains are most sensitive to developmental neurotoxins such as fluoride.” The whole article addresses Fluoride Fatigue. Feeling tired? Wondering if you have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Fibromyalgia? Fluoride might be a part of the problem.

Want a little history of the connection between BigGov, BigCorp & fluoridation? (follow the money) scroll down to “How It All Started” at Fluoridation Hoax – hmmmm, surely this can’t be true! Could such things happen?!

Other links for the inquisitive mind:

International Society for Fluoride Research (ISFR) and publishers of FLUORIDE , a technical journal with some articles understandable to the intelligent layperson.

Link to Parents of Fluoride Poisoned Children (PFPC)

CDC Cover up Complaint

Professionals call for End of Fluoridation
PDF version of above

Fluoride Action Network home page

NATIONAL TREASURY EMPLOYEES UNION: Eleven EPA employee unions representing over 7000 environmental and public health professionals of the Civil Service have called for a moratorium on drinking water fluoridation programs across the country. Also see News

Dangers of Fluoridation & Fluoride compounds in our environment

Detrimental effects of Fluoride*:

• Causes dental fluorosis
• Damages DNA repair enzymes
• Causes hypothyroidism
• Toxic brain effect – particularly when associated with aluminum and lead
• Increase of lead in fluoridated water systems
• Increases risk for osteoporosis
• Increases risk for cancer (DNA damage)
• Causes skeletal fluorosis
• Reduces fertility in males

Aluminum-Fluoride Complex (AIF3)*

• Neurotoxic at 0.5 ppm
• Impairs brain-cell cytoskeleton
• Reduces brain phospholipids
• Inhibits phospholipase D in neuron membrane
• Lowers brain CoQ10 levels
• Produces widespread neuron loss in hippocampus

*from multiple sources including Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life by Russell L. Blaylock, M.D. ISBN 0-929173-42-2

Toxins in Pop

This is an old one, but not many people heard about it. A study at Rutgers University revealed that soda pop sweetened with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS for you acronym geeks), contain an alarmingly high amount of reactive carbonyls.

These are things that are also found to be high in diabetics. I guess the link is - if you are a kid, drink lots of pop with HFCS, you are more likely to get fat and have early onset diabetes. Wow, that's more fun than a car wreck!

Originally I had a link to a good MedScape article, but upon checking the link, it insisted you sign in with an account. To get around this, do a Google search on 'medscape fat of the land' and click on the Fat of The Land link - it seems to work. . . . I haven't tried any other search engine.

Hmmm - I wonder if its in other things with HFCS? . . . . .

Want the BigCorp Big Sell on HFCS? This will certainly squelch any fears you have....

Pain - Natural Remedies

So what are you to do if you don't want to use BigPharma drugs?! (See my other posts on Pain Killers. . . (1) (2)
For chronic pain, or any pain for that matter, I've found drinking a good quality noni juice (tastes terrible - but you get used to it) works pretty good - but it may take a couple of days for it to take full effect. It is supposed to be 75% as good as morphine, but without the side effects and is non-habit forming. They say a few ounces a couple times a day.

If your bowel flora is out of balance, the bad bacteria can make substances that excite your pain sensors - so Probiotics, Oil of Oregano, Olive Leaf Extract, etc. help get you back in balance.

Another treatment is Prolotherapy. Remember C. Everett Koop? (U.S. Surgeon General)
Read about his experience and belief in prolotherapy.

After multiple back injuries, beginning with a car accident in high school, I suffered frequently with back pain. I was told the final and only ultimate solution would be back surgery. After doing some homework, it looked like that would not be a solution, but the beginning of lifelong journey down a road I wanted to avoid. Several years of prayerful searching led me to Dr. Mark Darrow. At that time, my alarm clock was my back - that pain was what woke me up every morning. I remember going to his clinic for my first prolotherapy treatment in the afternoon. I then drove back to our apartment wondering how many treatments it would take to feel some relief. To my amazement I slept longer than I had for a long time. May experience may not be typical, but I'm so glad I found that miracle rather than going under the knife!

Besides Dr. Darrow you can find other doctors who practice prolotherapy here. I've found not all prolo-docs are equal, so you might try to talk to some patients.

For small cuts, scrapes, and bites, I've found rotating topical applications of tea-tree oil (I like Malaleuca brand), tea-tree salve, and concentrated noni juice really works well. The tea-tree oil, noni juice, and royal jelly are supposed to be good on diabetic foot ulcers - but I've not had any experience there. (no source, just personal experience..)

For 1st & 2nd degree burns, get the burn cooled down as fast as possible with ice and apply a combination of tea-tree oil, aloe vera, and noni juice. Keeping the burned area cool with ice packs will control the pain and may take a couple of hours or even overnight (avoid frost bite tho!) for the pain to subside - keep it just cool enough to control the pain.

Of course I am not a doctor; I'm just sharing what I've learned from experience. Go see your doctor who will tell you this is all bunk. Then if you really want a new experience - find a holistic doctor.

MSG-mmmmm

MSG. What's that? Mono Sodium Glutamate. A neurotoxin - neuro (nerves & brain cells) - toxin (kills). More specifically, an Excitotoxin - Dr. John Olney in 1968 was experimenting with MSG as part of studying neural connections deep in the brain. To his suprise, he found MSG killed vital neurons by exciting them to death - and he coined the term 'excitotoxicity' or excitotoxin.

The effects of MSG are often subtle and not associated with disease or illness until the effects accumulate - such as obesity, diabetes/insulin resistance, cardiovascular disease (heart and arteries) fibromyalgia, learning disorders, cancer; and the list goes on. MSG greatly increases free radicals - and if you are low on antioxidants, the damage is going to be done sooner and to cells throughout your body.

The really sad part of all this is the increased susceptibility of the fetus and infants to MSG damage including learning disabilities and juvenile obesity. Here is a good Reference.

Unfortunately, and probably unknowingly, MSG laced mothers often start their infants off on MSG laden food and treats that lead to tantrums and fits shortly after ingestion. Other effects similar to autism, include difficulty adapting to new environments or stress.

Other factors bearing on the problem are that children are at least four times more sensitive to MSG than an adult and humans are five times more sensitive to it than rats. Add to that the fact that MSG or its effects, can be accumulative. Reference

Think your food is MSG free? If it comes in a package and is processed, it probably isn't. If an ingredient isn't over 98% MSG, they can call it by another name. More on this later....